[closing bell rings] we have global economic expansion. it will continue to stay in that value chain. liz: great advice. we're heading back down. the dow losing nearly 180 points. that will do it with "countdown to the closing bell." we'll be right back with "after the bell." david: stocks getting one-two punch with big headlines out of washington. the dow closing down 181 points. it recovered some as morning headlines of rosenstein and kavanaugh cool down a bit. mixed bag with major averages with the nasdaq turning positive. that is good news. less's stop there. i'm david asman. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." we have more on the big market movers. here what else we're covering at this very busy hour. the future is in question as rod rosenstein as deputy attorney general after reports surfaced he suggested secretly recording president trump and discussed the possibility of removing the president from office. we have a live report from the white house where things stand

right now. the fight to confirm supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is heating up with new allegations surfacing against him. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell lashing out against democrats on the senate floor moments ago and what he sees as a shameful smear campaign. the latest from capitol hill. and president trump is in new york city gearing up for a major -- david: gridlock. melissa: you got it. the united nations he says he is looking forward to another meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un in the very near future. new details from the u.n. reaction from a former ambassador. among our guests this hour, "judicial watch" president tom fitton, kayleigh mcenany, always screw that one up, sorry about that, from the rnc, famous astrophysicist neil degrass tyson. david: cool. the dow driven lower by trade concerns and exit of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein.

susan li, on the floor of the new york stock exchange t did end down but worse earlier in the day, susan. >> is specially when the rosenstein news hit the tape. better levels headed into the close. trade tensions with industrial stocks. usually the trade sensitive stocks like boeing and caterpillar dragging down a benchmark today. usually days after big expiration like what we had on friday, you sea weakness and we're seeing that trend continue but guess what? there is rotation back into big tech. nasdaq seeing gains at the end of the monday session. big names like netflix, like facebook. david: like apple, alphabet, amazon seeing gains once again. they had a rough month so far. heading for their first decline since march. looks like things are turning around a little bit. oil stocks also in focus after brent crude hit its highest levels in four years. west texas, $72 a barrel.

looking at big energy names seeing gains once again. today this monday was merger monday as i want to call it as you see on the screen. comcast, walt disney, 21st century fox. this weekend comcast winning the bidding for uk's sky broadcasting. they put in a strong bid, $22 and change per share. that is well above what disney put in for sky. that valued sky at $38 billion. analysts say these are really high valuations. put up a huge debt load on comcast's balance sheet. another big deal today was siriusxm buying up pandora, 3 1/2 billion dollar deal. values the company at $30 billion, to rival spotify in the future. sirius seeing declines. pandora had losses at the end of the session. one more piece of deal news, that includes versace, michael kors buying versace.

sears, 125 years, how long sears has been business for the retailer but they're up against big debt payments they need to make in 2019 and 2020. chairman eddie lampert wants to restructure that to keep it from teetering into bankruptcy. back to you. david: sad story for sears. thank you very much. melissa. melissa: political uncertainty weighing on markets, stocks dropping to session lows as bombshell reports that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein may be on his way out. fox business blake burman at the white house with the latest. not so clear he might be on the way out. reporter: a source familiar with the matter tells fox that rod rosenstein walked into the white house earlier this morning expected to be firing. instead during the noon hour he attend ad principals meeting and one of 45 minutes late he exited outside with chief of staff john kelly with his job intact.

the big question going forward, how much longer will rosenstein hold on to his job? appears thursday could be a key day in all of this. which know the president and rosenstein spoke on the phone today, but the president says he will have a meeting with rosenstein at the white house on thursday. that is because the president of course right now is by you guys in new york city for those u.n. meetings. president trump did not give any leanings earlier today on rosenstein's job status. >> meeting with rod rosenstein on thursday when i get back from all of these meetings. we'll be meeting at the white house. we'll be determining what is going on. we want to have transparency. we want to have openness. i look forward to meeting with rod at that time. reporter: this reemerged as a possible issue on friday when "the new york times" reported that rosenstein suggest secretly record the president and recruit cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment, a process that could lead to the ouster of

the president. however, rosenstein denies the claims. he is a key player in all this because he oversees robert mueller's specs counsel. democrats worry what that would mean for mueller's investigation should rosenstein leave or be fired from his post. for example, earlier today the congressman from california, adam schiff, the top democrat on house intelligence committee tweeted out the following saying quote, under no circumstances should rod rosenstein resign. this would place the mueller investigation into greater deputy. rosenstein should do his job protect the independence of the doj if the president intends to obstruct justice force trump to fire him. bottom line, david and melissa, thursday will be interesting one here at the white house. melissa: amazing a lot things happening on thursday. david: liz peek and john petrides from point have you wealth management. liz i'm wondering if the

white house decided let's do a trial run, put a rumor out there today is the stay that rod rosenstein gets canned. see how things react. they pulled. saw how things react. market reacted pretty badly but kind kind of moderated. the point when thursday comes, if there is firing of rosenstein, if the kavanaugh things get more messy than it is now, markets aren't going to do so well, are they? >> no, i would love to say that the white house is that organized to do that but i'm not sure that is true. this is really complicated. i don't see how rod rosenstein stays in his position if there is any verification at all that he suggested taping the president, suggested colluding with other officials in the white house to get out the president. david: yeah. >> i think that is president dangerous territory. unfortunately all this feeds into the bigger narrative that there are forces within the department of justice that really are not part of the trump team. david: right. >> and would like to see him out

of office. that is unhealthy situation. david: we'll talk about that with tom fitton in a moment, all the political ramifications but keeping with the markets here, john, i'm wondering if the mark competent did today think about a world in which the democrats would control both the house and senate and they didn't like that possibility? >> yeah, i mean we're going to find out as we come closer to the midterms elections. that will clearly drive the markets higher or lower. if the democrats pick up a lot of seats in congress and senate, that is, i think markets would sell off on that reaction because it would derail this pro-business, pro-republican growth plan. so, you know, expect more volatility to come as we get closer to the midterms. melissa: moving on to another topic weighing on stocks dashes the u.s. and china both imposing new sanctions today, further escalating ongoing trade war. this is coming hours after china backed out of trade talks with the united states. liz, i will start with you. so it was funny, i was reading

this note out of fitch. it was like the trade war is now a reality. so you hold your breath. then they say the world forecast for growth for 2019, downgraded it by .1 of one percent. i mean -- >> that doesn't seem dire. >> i was scared at first and then i read the whole thing? >> that is the narrative been all along. this is the worst thing that could happen to the economy and united states around the world, yet it doesn't seem to matter very much. eventually some companies will get hurt by this. producers are going to get hurt by this at this point the numbers are simply not that big. let's face it. if we're not going to export to china, some products will find another market for it. the chinese are doing the same. i think it is really, it would really be great to have a win here. would i like to see nafta put to bed. that is very close. trump is presumably maybe going to meet with trudeau. let's get canada and nafta done

and then let's sort of start talking with eu partners about reforming the wto. bringing them on board, reining in some bad practices the chinese have, engaged in for decades. melissa: yeah. >> this needs to happen. it would be nice to see some forward progress. melissa: john, i think we have proven the resolve, like liz says, win somewhere would be nice. maybe to come from mexico which would be ironic, that is where they're sort of closest, yes? >> i agree with what liz is saying reality at this point, remember march, this 200 billion-dollar trade tariff number was thrown out with china so now we're at that. so any incremental headline going forward will spook more volatility into the market. expect more volatility to come aren't less. because the markets can wrap their head around some number. melissa: volatility with trump, who knew. liz, john, thank you. david: take a look at oil closing up nearly 2%. it is now above 72 bucks a

barrel, the highest finish since the beginning of july. brent crude is nearing a four-year high. phil flynn in the pits of the cme. phil, what is driving all this? >> the main thing opec is joining the resist movement. they resisted president trump's call for more oil production at this weekend's meeting and caught the market by surprise. a lot of people were looking for opec to raise production by 500,000 barrels, or million barrels but they got zip, nothing. nada. they are questioning opec es a ability to ramp up production ahead of irian embargo that will come on. from a political risk point with the situation in iran and attack of the revolutionary guard at this parade, iran is threatening to retaliate against some of the biggest oil producers in the world, mainly the united states,

saudi arabia and u.a.e. you have got geopolitical risk, supply side issues coming into play at the same time. so it is going to be very difficult for this market to meet demand. it is going off to the races. back to you. david: phil, thank you very much. good stuff. melissa. melissa: phil laid it out perfectly. so smart about that stuff. airline stocks take as big hit today as congress consider as n.o.w. bill that would require the faa to require minimum seat size on airlines, giving passengers more leg room. fox business's hillary vaughn is live at los angeles international airport with the latest. hillary i love the sound of more leg room. hate the sound of more government. take it away. reporter: that is good point, melissa. i reached out to delta, american airlines, united southwest, they pointed to airlines for america that support this is bill. here is what they're saying. we support the federal government's role determining what seat size is safe as required by this bill and federal aviation administration recently affirmed all u.s.

carriers meet or exceed federal safety standards regarding seat size and faa approved seat configurations before they go into service. now all of this is because the bill up for debate that would approve more funding for the faa that is set to expire on september 30th would actually put requirements say, hey, you can't continue to put the squeeze on passengers. there has to be a minimum requirement of space, not only seat size but the space between each row. that is one of additions in this bill. there is a lot of other things they're cracking down on. service animals is one of them. that is a issue pretty hot over the past year people try to bring a variety of animals on board. they will crack down on people bringing pets on board that really aren't service animals. also any pet that is on board cannot go in the overhead compartment above a lot of other things, so e-cig smoking on board or phone calls. melissa. melissa: wow, you can't shove your comfort lemur in the overhead compartment anymore.

that is what i'm getting. that makes sense. david: i didn't know you had a comfort lemur. melissa: and peacock. i tried to travel with them both, peacocks are very relaxing charles payne i think of charles payne in one of those tight seats. melissa: how old were some of the planes? some looked like from the '50s. there you go. anyway, funding the future of space travel. congress also including provisions for creating an office of spaceports. melissa: oh. david: in its new faa bill. coming up we ask neil degrass tyson what this could mean for the industry. melissa: president trump defends his supreme court nominee as a second woman accuses brett kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. this coming ahead after hering on thursday. we'll tell you what we know now. david: does rod rosenstein keep his job as deputy attorney general beyond a week? we'll ask "judicial watch" president tom fitton. you don't want to will say next.

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this is long in coming. many years, actually i will say in coming. in a few moments we will sign a document pledging that our countries will take the additional necessary steps to implement the new united states-korea trade agreement. i want to express my gratitude to president moon and his entire team for their dedicated efforts to reach really what we would call a historic milestone in trade. something that most people thought was not going to be happening. from day one i promised the american people that i would renegotiate our trade deals to insure that our agreements were fair and reciprocal. for decade politicians talked about fixing broken trade deals only to do absolutely nothing about them. my administration is the first to actually keep our promise and deliver. in addition to this deal, we have many in the works and they

are fair deals. they are reciprocal deals and they make a tremendous difference to our workers, to our countries and and to the united states as a whole. the new u.s.-korea agreement includes significant improvements to reduce our trade deficit and to expand opportunities to export american products to south korea. in other words we are now going to start sending products to south korea. these outcomes give the finest american-made automobiles, innovative medicines and agricultural crops much better access to korean markets. i think our farmers will be extremely happy. it was very limited as what they could do and what they could send and now it's a open market. and they're going to be sending a lot more farm products. that makes me feel very good. i love our farmers. as part of this agreement we also secured increased access to america auto industry. the south korea will double

annual number of cars sold in. we used to sell a maximum of 25. we wouldn't get to that number. now we're going to 50,000 cars, we're doubling it per manufacturer. that is a doubling. so 50,000 per manufacturer of cars. that is each year. so that is a doubling of the cars per manufacturer that can enter its market meeting u.s. safety standards. so we're going now with a u.s. safety standard, the standard was at a point you couldn't get cars in. they are going to the u.s. safety standard. very important to understand. this agreement will reduce bureaucracy and increase prosperity in both of our countries. workers in south korea and america will find new customers and new opportunities to expand and grow. our teams will be working hard to insure that the terms of the deal are fully implemented. president moon, i just want to tell you, we've developed a

great relationship on many different fronts. this one is on trade but we're working very well on north korea. a lot of very positive things are happening with chairman kim of north korea and you will be hearing about that over the coming weeks but i think some really, really important things are happening. as i said just a little while ago we have an agreement to work out another summit and we look forward to doing that. i'm going to be meeting with chairman kim in the not-too-distant future. the location is being worked on. the time is being worked on and we'll be announcing it. as far as these negotiations, our two countries have set an example of friendship and cooperation for trade that rarely you see in this age and i just want to tell you i'm very honored to be a part of it and i'm honored to call you a friend and i'm honored to say that the

united states and south korea have a great friendship together. thank you very much. mr. president, thank you very much. [speaking foreign language] melissa: so that is the president there in a joint news conference with south korean president moon and he is announcing the u.s.-north korea free trade act which could be that win we were talking about before the president was looking for. among the things they have agreed to in this quote, unquote, free-trade agreement is doubling the number of u.s. cars are sold within south korea meeting the u.s. requirements for safety. used to be 25,000 per year per manufacturer. and now they are changing that number immediately to 50,000 cars per year, per manufacturer. so more american products being sold in south korea under this new trait deal which he said is separate from the deal that they have been talking about with

regard to north korea, which he said is also going along very well. are we going to listen more here to see what happens? okay. we were afraid, if the president ends up taking any questions or anything which could happen we'll come back to it. so don't worry. we'll keep an eye. >> during the campaign it is clearly the department of justice, the fbi was tipping the scales for clinton. this revelation after president trump was sworn in shows they were trying to undermine the election. there is a bureaucratic coup going on at the department of justice and the fbi, and somebody needs to look at it. david: tough language from lindsey graham. he is reacting to "the new york times" report that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein suggesting he wear a wire when talking to the president and discussed invoking the 25th amendment to remove president trump from office. so will mr. rosenstein be gone after his thursday meeting with the president? to tom fitton, president of

"judicial watch." an internal coup you don't usually hear that from lindsey graham. what do you think? >> if these were colonels and generals having this type of discussion, there would be no question what you call it, it would be a coup. top leadership of the fbi and justice department at the time, put it charitiably casually discussing and removing overthrowing the president of the united states through means licit and illicit. two things only one of which happened, wiretapping the president, we don't think that happened. using a 25th amendment, that obviously has not happened and appointing a special target to target and harass him. we know that happened. david: right, right. >> we know based on mr. rosenstein's discomfort having to be held accountable for the removal of james comey he took it out on president trump by appointing a special counsel to target him. on an issue that

mr. rosenstein -- david: got to break in with rosenstein's argument which he says he was joking. the comment about the wire was a joke. that the 25th amendment thing, he said he was joking about. the way to find out if he was joking, which he claims or was serious, which a lot of people think is true, to look at the mccabe memos. the mccabe memos what spell all this out. they're still being held back. if we, the justice department released those memos, would we know the truth? >> we'll know more of the truth. we'll have a contemporaneous record what took place. presumably more than one person at the meeting and has notes about it. other witnesses should be called to talk about what happened at the meeting. whether it was a joke or not, as i pointed out the proof is in the pudding and the corrupt pudding here. david: right. >> to strain the metaphor is the special counsel operation run by robert mueller. david: there is another thing we need to straighten out. what was in that fisa warrant.

rosenstein is the guy that signed off on the fisa warrant that allowed the u.s. government to spy on the trump campaign. when if ever are we going to see that fisa warrant and won't that talk about his duplicity or his role at least in getting that warrant? >> well, again it is up to rod rosenstein. he is one of the decisionmakers at justice on these transparency issues. i would be curious to know if he was one of those who went over to the white house last week to persuade the president to stand back a little bit on his decision to release the remaining portion of the fisa warrant. that anyone who has looked at it, who has classified clear answers like devin nuon stress and bob goodlatte of the house. it has nothing to do with national security but has to do with corruption at justice department and fbi that they don't want out there. david: tom, because of breaking news, we have to cut it short but does rosenstein stay through the end of the week? >> yes.

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forward against judge brett kavanaugh. both of them were some 30 plus years ago. one of them, deborah ramirez told her story to the new yorker. she says kavanaugh, or had sex misconduct exposed himself to her at a party at yale. dr. christine ford said kavanaugh tried to sexually assault her at high school party. both instances both say kavanaugh was drunk at time. both say they were at parties n a letter delivered this weekend to judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley, ford writes, while i'm frightened to, while i am frightened please know my fear will not hold me back from testifying and you will be provide the answers to all your questions. i ask for fair and respectful treatment. in another letter delivered today, this time to senator dianne feinstein and senator chuck grassley from kavanaugh, i will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process. the coordinated effort to destroy my good name will not drive me out.

the vial threats of violence against my family will not drive me out. the last minute character assassination will not succeed. he denies both of those allegations. democrats say this shows the need for a full investigations. >> there is simply no way in good conscience, no way, that the united states can vote on this nomination of brett kavanaugh without a full, fair, investigation. reporter: republicans on the judiciary committee say that the democrats are just playing politics with all of this. >> i want to make it perfectly clear, mr. president. judge kavanaugh will be voted on here on the senate floor. up or down. on the senate floor. reporter: so far the hearing will go forward and as you heard there, it will be a vote up or down on kavanaugh.

republicans want that soon after. david. david: edward lawrence, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: here to react, john decker, fox news radio white house correspondent and attorney, kayleigh mcenany, rnc spokesperson. thanks to both of you for joining us. john, it has to be crazy with everything going back and forth. what is your impression on, you know, first of all the chase after rosenstein, was that sort of about deflecting what is going on with kavanaugh, what is your make what happened there today? >> rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general wants to make his case. his denials face-to-face to the president. that story came out friday on "the new york times." on thursday he will have that opportunity to explain to the president what was said during that meeting of may of last year. and make those denials once again. as you know, melissa he already put out two separate statements which he denied both of the allegations that were made against him in that

"new york times" story. melissa: kayleigh, "the new york times" is at the center of both of these stories. that is their take on rosenstein. when it comes to kavanaugh, they say they interviewed everybody the second accuser had listed as somebody who was there, knew about what was going on, and couldn't find anyone who had first-hand knowledge of what happened or supposedly happened. what is your take on that? >> yeah, it is exactly right. "the new york times" had a moment of journalistic integrity when they decided not to run with the story, that they said dozens of sources would not confirm. even beyond that, what was so key to this, miss ramirez herself for the past 35 years never identified brett kavanaugh being the individual she had this misconduct interaction with. she decided that just this week after six days of speaking to an attorney, after being brought out by democrats as ronan farrow noted today. good for "the new york times" for not running with it. there is scant evidence if any, i think we get a lot of answers

come thursday. melissa: apparently the president commenting on this let's listen. >> sad indeed if something happened to reroute that. this is a fine man. we certainly hope he will be confirmed and quickly. his family has suffered. his family has suffered. what is going on is not something that should happen. brett kavanaugh is a absolute outstanding person. hopefully he will be confirmed quickly. thank you very much. [shouting questions] melissa: that was moments ago during that signing ceremony of the free-trade agreement between korea and the u.s., at the u.n. that was the second time the president has commented on this story today. jon, i would ask you to comment on the change in tone because early on when this began the president was saying she has a right to be heard, let's hear what she has to say. now at this point, sort of with the pile-on and with everything gone on getting to this point to hear her story he sound like he has run out of patience.

what is your impression? >> this is his nominee, melissa. he supports his nominee. he has met with his nominee brett kavanaugh numerous times. the president is being very sincere of the he feels that brett kavanaugh is going through aer. >> campaign right now. we heard -- a smear campaign. similar comments from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell less than an hour ago. this is a nominee who will be put up on a vote on the full floor of the senate. the president backs him, mitch mcconnell backs him. i have no doubt mitch mcconnell will follow through with the pledge to have up-or-down vote on the floor of the u.s. senate. melissa: breaking news is killing us, kayleigh. you get another one next time. >> no worry, guys. david: we have an interview from fox news. melissa: right. david: martha maccallum had an interview with bred kavanaugh. we have clips from that. we don't have the whole interview. that will be on fox news at 7:00 tonight. we'll present little clips from

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kristina partsinevelos outside the live from the u.n. with the latest. reporter: his first or second general assembly address tomorrow. expected to change tone compared to last year. last year the president referred to the leader of north korea as "rocket man," actually threatened the country of north korea. we know now that will not be the case, earlier on your show you played the presser showed the president saying they may potentially meet with north korea for a second summit. this is a complete change of course. tomorrow we expect the president to comment on possible improved relations with north korea. the fact he also signed a revised free-trade agreement with south korea. then of course iran, that will be the dark comments coming from president trump that he is expected to comment on iran. the fact that he wants a european countries to join forces with the united states to not deal with iran and isolate iran. so that is expected during the conversation. the president also has a bilateral meeting with colombian president and a luncheon with

the u.n. secretary-general. throw it back to you guys. melissa: kristina. thank you. david: joining me now to react is ambassador adam aerial -- ehrlich, former ambassador to the because hain. the u.n. is supposed to be known of peacemakers. i sense their dislike of donald trump overwhelms for their desire for him to do well in peace making with north korea. that is my impression going around the u.n., knowing some of those folks. what do you think? >> i think you're right. donald trump is a disruptor. he is definitely not business as usual when it comes how the u.n. operates. so, but look, that is, that is neither here nor there, when it comes to peace with north korea. i think that everybody could agree that peace with north korea is a good thing. denuclearization is a good thing. a permanent peace treaty is a good thing. but, how we get there it is a, it's a rocky road. david: it is indeed. let me switch to iran. we're short on time because of

the president speaking earlier. >> sure. david: we had this explosion at a military parade in iran over the weekend. about 29 people were killed. isis has claimed responsibility for the thing. of course the iranian regime is also blaming the united states. when you combine that with the earlier protests a couple months ago i'm just wondering if the regime is in trouble there? >> well, i think the trump administration would certainly like to think so. i would note that there was another group that claimed responsibility as well. a opposition, armed opposition group in that part of iran. i think what's clear is, sanctions are having an impact on iran. their currency is falling through the floor. there have been non-stop protests since december. the regime, if not on the rope, is certainly under unprecedented pressure and i think you can expect trump to keep that pressure up in his remarks both

tomorrow at the u.n. general assembly and the security council on wednesday. david: very quickly the u.s. given an ultimatum for european countries and companies dealing with iran, when it comes down to choosing, if they have to choose dealing with little iran and/or dealing with the united states, aren't they going to dump iran? >> absolutely. they have already been doing it for months. i would point out, oil sanctions come into effect november 4th. the united states will be seeking to cut off all revenue from iranian oil sales. david: gotcha. thank you for making the answers so delightfully short. ambassador, we appreciate you coming. >> thank you, sir. melissa: fox news exclusive. martha maccallum sitting down with judge brett kavanaugh and his wife amid the fight for the supreme court nomination after decades-old allegations of sexual assault. that is interview you only see on fox. we'll play some clips for you. they just came in. we'll play them for you next.

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melissa: so we have breaking knaus. judge brett kavanaugh and his wife ashley just sitting down with martha maccallum for a fox news exclusive interview. we have a preview. take a listen of the. >> the truth is i have never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise. i am not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps dr. ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone at someplace but what i know is that i have never sexually assaulted anyone. david: kavanaugh also adding that the accusations will not force him to withdraw his nomination. >> did you guys ever look at each other, i'm out, this is enough, i'm out, this is not worth it? >> i will not let false accusations drive us out of this process and, and you know, we're looking for a fair process where i can be heard and defend the,

my inintegrity, my lifelong record promoting dignity or equality for women, starting with the women who knew me when i was 14 years old. i'm not going anywhere. david: wow. melissa: you can catch the full interview tonight on "the story" with martha maccallum on 7:00 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel. we heard him talk about this. he read it, put statements out, but see him next to his wife is very different. david: what you can't read is emotion in his voice and emotion in his eyes, that steely emotion in his wife as well. melissa: yeah. david: well the sights are being set even higher for the future of space travel. there is not a single person more qualified to talk about this, than neil degrass tyson. he joins us after the break. you don't want to miss it coming up. ♪ goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell.

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melissa: congress set to vote this week on a new bill looking to establish what they are calling a office of spaceports to promote infrastructure improvements for future space travel. joining me now, is neil degrasse tyson, he is famed astro physicist, author of a new book, accessory to war. i'm excited to have you on about this. your new book speaks exactly to the issue we're talking about here. it is intersection between astrophysicists and the military. some said in the industry, i would have killed to have this kind of focus on space when i was in office. this is from somebody who was in the national security council and has since moved off into other fields. but you say there is this sort of alliance between astro physicists and the military that can be uncomfortable. what are you talking about there? >> just the history of the relationship. in my field we're sort of

overwhelmingly liberal, antiwar, yet the entire history of my field goes back in the service of military conquest and hegemony and empire building. we were the ones that knew how to navigate the night sky and how to apply the navigational tools to the earth's surface to enable you to find out what countries you want to colonize or conquer if you like. astronomers have been sitting next to explorers from all time. space, started out as military intended utility has become a fundamental driver of modern, of so many elements of our modern economy from uber to tinder. and so, this relationship relationship is long and deep, explored in the book, thanks for good mention of it. there is lot of interesting things with the faa announcement they want to stimulate and

promote commercial spaceports and access to space. that should have been in progress decade ago. melissa: when you talk about putting someone in charge of spaceports. almost sounds like putting the cart before the horse to average people. i don't know, i'm not traveling to a lot of spaceports. we need somebody to manage all the spaceports, right? >> you need someone, no, excellent point. you need someone to sync it through from the beginning if and when it becomes a thing, there is a lot of intelligent analysis saved of who is spending to you space and who is downrange from whatever is launched. the safety of your duration of in space. think of what the faa has done for us to this day. we have one of the safest aviation records the world has ever seen. you kind of want that for true for any activities in space. especially tourism. which will get the average person taking these trips, rather than the fly boy macho person who will take 50% risk of

dying, or whoever that person is. you want to turn this into something that, people might want to do. and by the way the first trillion area is going to be the first person that exploits space resources an asteroids or comets. melissa: thank you. we have to run. thank you for coming on. we had so much breaking news. come back soon. neil degrasse tyson. >> i'm here for you. david: more on martha maccallum's es exclusive sit down with brett kavanaugh and his wife.

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>> i want a fair process where i can defend my integrity. and, i know i'm telling the truth. i know my lifelong record. and, i'm not going to let false accusations drive me out of this process. i have faith in god and i have faith in the fairness of the american people. >> if the american people get the full story. that is the thing. i'm not sure they are from all

the media accounts that you have now. melissa: they hear the background noise. if there is smoke maybe there is fire. watch martha mack, you will hear from him and his wife. >> gripping. "the evening edit" starts right now. >> i'm out. this is enough, this is just isn't worth it. john: supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh talking to fox in exclusive interview responding to latest allegations that he sexually assaulted someone in college, talking exclusively to fox. he talks about whether he remembers the alleged yale party described and democrat attempts to throw out his nomination. we have exclusive sign. money, politics, we have delate behind tomorrow's headlines. i'm john layfield in for liz macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. snow ♪